On Go away Educational 12 months 2024-2025
Prof. Kafadar is within the social and cultural historical past of the Center East and southeastern Europe within the late medieval/early trendy period. He teaches programs on Ottoman historical past, city house, journey, widespread tradition, historical past and cinema. His newest essays embody “How Darkish is the Historical past of the Evening, How Black the Story of Espresso, How Bitter the Story of Love: the Altering Measure of Leisure and Pleasure in Early Trendy Istanbul;” “Evliya Celebi in Dalmatia: an Ottoman Traveler’s Encounters with the Arts of the Franks;” and “Between Amasya and Istanbul: Bayezid II, His Librarian and the Textual Flip of the Late Fifteenth Century.”
He has curated a program of twelve movies, titled “Rebels, Saints and Troubadours,” for the Istanbul Worldwide Movie Pageant in 2009 and labored carefully on the conception and manufacturing of two historic documentaries: “Inspirations” (dir. Nurdan Arca, 2005) on Sheikh Bedreddin, an Ottoman mental executed for his concepts ca.1417; “Invisible to the Eye” (dir. Zeynep Dadak, 2020) on the mid-Seventeenth century account of Istanbul by Eremya Chelebi Kömürjian.
Chosen Publications
- Treasures of Data: an Stock of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (co-edited, 2019)
- Kendine Ait Bir Roma : Diyar-ı Rum’da Kültürel Coğrafya Ve Kimlik Üzerine (2017)
- Kim Var Imiş Biz Burada Yoğ Iken : Dört Osmanlı : Yeniçeri, Tüccar, Derviş ve Hatun (2009).
- “The Query of Ottoman Decline” in Harvard Center East and Islamic Evaluate (1999)
- Between Two Worlds: The Development of the Ottoman State (1995, translated into Greek and Turkish)
- Suleiman the Second and His Time, co-edited with Halil Inalcik (1993)
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